· Private foundation
Castor-Bell-Lewis Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Spring of Tampa Bay | $5,000 |
| Judeo Christian Health Clinic | $2,500 |
| Workforce Development Partners | $2,500 |
| Center for Women | $2,500 |
| Chilrdrens Home Society | $2,500 |
| WSMRWUSF | $2,000 |
| Dr Martin Luther King Parade Foundation | $2,000 |
| YMCA | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Tampa | $1,000 |
| CDC of Tampa Bary | $1,000 |
| Tampa Museum of Art | $1,000 |
| Village Partners International | $1,000 |
| Bay Area Legal Service | $1,000 |
| Feeding Tampa Bay | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- TSTHE SPRING OF TAMPA BAY INC5× · 2020–2025 · $14k · revenue +62%
- FAFEEDING AMERICA TAMPA BAY INC5× · 2020–2025 · $7k · revenue +37%
METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC4× · 2020–2023 · $6k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- MMMary Mcleod Bethune Statuary Fundone grant, 2021 · $5k
- CFCenter for Womenone grant, 2024 · $5k
- TSThe Spring of Tampaone grant, 2024 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Working in partnership with state business leaders to secure florida's future.
The florida center supports the healthy development of young children, specializing in those with delays, disabilities or mental health challenges. our mission- "to help build and foster strong families and expand the potential of young…
TBAH provides prevention and intervention programming to at risk youth individuals and families. Services include case management mentoring tutoring job readiness job placement educational and vocational services leadership training GED…
To develop and sustain a thriving local economy by focusing on the attraction, expansion and retention of high wage jobs and capital investment.
The tampa bay partnership is a privately funded, ceo-driven regional advocacy organization, committed to creating a unified, competitive and prosperous tampa bay.
The mission of the child protection center, inc. is the prevention, intervention and treatment of child abuse. we envision a community where children are safe from abuse and free to thrive. to successfully address the issue of child abuse,…
Friends of the children tampa bay has a mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships and professional mentors 12+ years, no matter what. 92% go on to enroll in…
The family healthcare foundation's mission is to be the trusted leader in our community, ensuring access to high-quality healthcare for all in the tampa bay area. see also schedule o.
To support the greater tampa chamber of commerce through leadership and educational programs.
Discovering, preserving, and learning from our region's past to inform our common future. the history center includes three floors of permanent and temporary exhibition galleries focusing on 12,000 years of florida history.
The mission of the arc tampa bay, inc. is to support and empower people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc and the most unlike its peers is Workforce Development Partners Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
31 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 31 of the 66 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE SPRING OF TAMPA BAY INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING AMERICA TAMPA BAY INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds JUDEO CHRISTIAN HEALTH CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE FLORIDA ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds THE CENTRE FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF FLORIDA ↗
- Who funds THE CRISIS CENTER OF TAMPA BAY INC ↗
- Who funds TAMPA MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds Community Tampa Bay Inc ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds DR MARTIN LUTHER KING PARADE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WHEELS OF SUCCESS INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY AREA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION INC ↗
- Who funds QUANTUM LEAP FARM INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF TAMPA BAY INC ↗
- Who funds University of South Florida Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA HOLOCAUST MUSEUM INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc · Vinik Family Foundation · Pinellas Community Foundation · Debartolo Family Foundation Inc · The Saunders Foundation · Rays Baseball Foundation Inc · United Way Suncoast Inc · Suncoast Credit Union Foundation · Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida Foundation · The Spurlino Foundation · Clark Family Fund Inc · New York Yankees Tampa Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Castor-Bell-Lewis Family Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- University Area Community Development Corporation Inc — 100% of income from government
- Corporation to Develop Communities of Tampa Inc — 37% of income from government
- The Spring of Tampa Bay Inc — 33% of income from government
- Champions for Children Inc — 14% of income from government
- Bay Area Legal Services Inc — 14% of income from government
- The Centre for Women Inc — 6% of income from government
- The Crisis Center of Tampa Bay Inc — 6% of income from government
- The Children's Home Society of Florida — 6% of income from government
- Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc — 2% of income from government
- Metropolitan Ministries Inc — 0% of income from government
- Tampa Museum of Art Inc — 0% of income from government
- Florida Holocaust Museum Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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